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When John Lewis unexpectedly gave in, agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration, observers wondered why this roaring lion had suddenly begun to coo like a sucking dove. Some suggested a possible reason: Mr. Lewis had good reason to suppose that the arbitration board-U.S. Steel Corp. President Benjamin Fairless, Dr. John R. Steelman, head of the U.S. Conciliation Service, and John L. Lewis himself-would decide in Mr. Lewis' favor...
...Juniors who have been chosen and their fields of concentration are Benjamin N. Barksdale, Psychology; Ralph B. Bennett, Literature; Jean de Chadenedes, Geological Sciences; Kieran P. Culliton, Romance Languages; Frank Dardeno, Philosophy; Donald H. Eldredge, Jr., Biology; Richard P. Gifford, Mathematics; Richard L. Hall, Chemistry; J. Michael Harrington, Jr., Classics...
...newly elected Seniors on the committee are Benjamin M. Hazard, Literature; Wilfred M. Kluss, Psychology; and Jack M. Peterson, Physics...
...plenipotentiaries have had trouble with sartorial protocol since the days of Benjamin Franklin. When Minister Franklin appeared before the King of France in plain brown velvet knee breeches he was called uncouth. When Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes refused to expose his shanks to the Court of St. James's in knee breeches he stirred comment. When Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy showed up at the same court in a tail coat, someone said he looked like "one of the less important waiters...
Next day Stephens' startled Daddy and girls heard still more shocking talk. Exclaimed Dr. Leslie Benjamin Hohman, famed Johns Hopkins psychiatrist (author of As The Twig Is Bent): "Don't marry a soldier just because he wears a uniform. . . . Marriage in this country is based too much on romantic ideals. Romance is the whipped cream of marriage. . . . Whole civilizations have been founded on the theory of marriage without love; for example, the French marriage of convenience...